The rise of totalitarianism and Axis powers in the 1930s and its lead up to the Pacific Theater of World War II. “Duce” of Italian Fascism Benito Mussolini making a speech. A superimposed animated cartoon radio antenna emits the word “Lies”. Adolf Hitler making a passionate speech to German troops. A Nazi parade in Germany. Growth of German military budget is shown with an animated diagram. Gathering of troops, army vehicles, artillery, motorcars, tanks, airplanes, and ships of the Axis nations. News headlines about the military budget. Japanese soldiers holding bayonets. Animated map shows the Japanese plan for the invasion of Manchuria. Damaged railroads during a dramatized depiction of the Mukden Incident. The Japanese flag at a mast. Japanese troops advance in Manchuria. Former Emperor of China Puyi becomes the Emperor of Manchukuo. Flag of Manchukuo. Emperor Puyi shake hands with a Japanese military official. United States Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson denounces the Manchurian action. A sign reads: 'Gotham Limited'. Japanese delegates speak during a national meeting. They leave a League of Nations meeting. Horses plowing a field in Iowa. A double decker bus on a road in London. A waiter serving at an al fresco café in Paris. A hut burns as the Japanese advance through Manchuria. Huge columns of U.S. Army troops marching in formation.
Siege of Stalingrad, from 1942 through 1943. Germans and Soviets battle for Stalingrad in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) during World War II. German Stuka dive bombers in a line for a take off. A formation of German Stukas JU-87s. Soviet troops march across a field. German Pz.III tanks go across dry land. German heavy artillery lay down a barrage on the city of Stalingrad. Explosions in the city. German troops advance across a scrubby terrain throwing hand grenades. German troops use flame throwers against Soviet troop positions. Shell bursts in the city. Smoke rises. Buildings in Stalingrad on fire. German soldiers advance into outskirts of Stalingrad which shows completely demolished buildings. Smoke rises in the city. Winter scenes show Soviet artillery firing at German troop positions following successful Soviet encirclement of German forces in Operation Uranus. A Soviet officer with his beard covered with frost. Soviet troops counterattack across snow covered fields. Aerial views of Soviet aircraft including Tupolev Tu-2. Dead German soldiers lying in a field. Soviet troops advance. Street to street fighting. Soviet machine guns fired.
An Eagle Boat at a dock in the United States. Views of the Eagle Boat with men standing on the deck. The U.S. flag on the boat.
General views of London, England. View of Oxford Street showing the site of John Lewis's store which was bombed during World War II. This site is being cleared and is now being used for an army exhibition. A sign: 'John Lewis'. Workmen prepare the site for army exhibition. A 16 year old boy paints signs for the exhibition. Traffic on a road. View of Piccadilly Circus with Statue of Eros. Piccadilly Circus with 'County of London Plan' posters on boarded up Eros Statue. American soldiers cross a street. Entrance to an underground, Piccadilly Circus. Entrances are now protected from blast by a wall.
On March 15, 1965 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson addresses a joint session of the Congress to urge the passage of new voting rights legislation in the United States. Members of the Congress applaud. President Johnson addresses that government will treat every citizen equal. Every American will be given equal opportunity and every American citizen must have an equal right to vote in the Voting Rights Act.
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson addresses a joint session of the Congress to urge the passage of new Voting Rights Act legislation in the United States. He references the Emancipation Proclamation. In his speech, a week after racial violence in Selma, Alabama, President Johnson says that this is the time for civil rights, racial equality, and justice and 'It is right in eyes of men and God'. He says that the real hero of struggle is the American African American and equality depends upon moral rights and we should respect the law and its orders. Members of the Congress applaud. He adds in his address that he wants to be the President to educate young children, to help to feed the hungry, to help poor to find their own way and to promote laws. The joint session of the Congress stands and applauds after President Johnson's speech.
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